Typographical machine.



D. S. KENNEDY. TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED APR. 7. 1914.

Patented May 23, 1916.

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DAVID S. KENNEDY, F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB. TO MEBGEN'TILALER LINO- v TYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 19116.

Application filed April 7, 1914. Serial No. 830,109.

, T 0 all whom it may concern thereof equipped with a plurality of magazines. It is often desirable to have at hand a considerable number of type or matrices representing additional characters, such as sorts or the like, and to this end is employed a special or supplementary magazine, the escapements of which are controlled by an independent keyboard, and wherein the type or matrices are delivered to the usual belt, which conveys them to the assembling point, and wherein afterward distributing mechanism redelivers them to their. respective channels. In many essential respects the general construction is similar to that of the linotype machine shown and described in my Letters Patent of the United States, Nos. 1,115,210; 1,136,534; and 1,136,535..

My present improvements contemplate an extension of the same principle, and to that end I equip the machine with a plurality of such supplementary magazines, and in combination therewith employ an arrangement of distributing mechanism to restore the matrices to all the supplementary magazines simultaneously.

The invention is illustrated in connection with that style of machine presented in the Letters Patent of John R. Rogers, No. 1,109,872, dated September 8th, 1914, wherein a plurality of main magazines are 'movably arranged so'that any selected one may be brought into operative position at will, but obviously my present improvements are capable of wider application, animight be employed in connection with a single main magazine, or with other arrangements of plural magazines. I f

The accompanying drawings illustrate a linotype machine having my invention applied thereto, and except as hereinafter set forth, it may be of the class illustrated in 0 Letters Eatent of the United States, No. 436,532, t Mergenthaler, or in the said- Rogers application. While I thus show a preferred embodiment of my invention, it will be obvious that many changes and variations may ,be made therein, and in its mode of adaptation, which will still be comprised within its spirit; and that it may be similarly used in connection with typeset ting and typecasting machines, or in fact with any kind of typographical machine,

whether handling type, dies, or matrices. I

therefore desire it to be distinctly understood that I do not limit myself to any specific form' or embodiment, except in so far as such limitations are specified in the claims. Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a linotype machine having my improvements embodied therein; Fig. 2 is a rear view partly broken away of the parts shown in Fig. 1 Fig. 2 shows matricesof the kind stored in the several supplementary magazines; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 2-2of Fig. 2 ;'and'Fig. a is a view similar to Fig. 2, presenting a modification.

The main magazines A, A A (Fig. l) are carried by a supporting frame A which is mo vably arranged so that by the operation of the handle A any selected magazine may be brought into operative position at will, and the matrices are restored thereto in the usual manner, through the instrumentality of the distributer rail L, screwsL and channel entrance A The parts so far describechmay be of the usual construction and mode of operation, and in themselves constitute no part of my present invention.

In order to contain the extra or sorts -matrices- I provide a plurality of supplementary magazines, in the present instance represented by the two superposed magazines B and C, arranged at, the side of and in tandem to the main magazines. For the upper magazine B, there is provided a distributer rail M which forms a continuation of the main distributer rail L, the operative or ribbed portions of the'two rails, being separated by an intermediate blank portion fora purpose laterto be described. The matrice's are carried along the rail M by screws M \vhich'form continuations of the screws L for the main distributer rail. In

another sense, therefore, the distributers for the main magazines and the supplemental magazine B may be saidto constitute a single distributer for both magazines, although they will hereafter be regarded as two dis- 1m v tinct distributers. As the matriceslXj are released from the distributor rail M they drop into the channel entrance B which conveysthem to the magazine B. Similarly, the lower magazine C is provided with a distributer rail N and screws N from which the matrices Y are delivered through .the channel entrance C The matrices X and Y, corresponding respectively to the magazines B- and C, are'illustrated in Fig.

\ 2, it being noted that the matrix. Y differs magazine, while the matrices X and 1 pass entirely along the rail and are delivered from the end thereof, all in-the manner well understood in the art. Thedistributer rail M is located in line with the rail L, but with a slight space between their grooved portions, which interval is therefore supple;

mented by a bridge formed with the-upwardly projecting ridge 0, located immediately beneath the matrices passing from the rail L. As the matrices X- are delivered,

' their lower edges rest on the ridge and they v matrices V pass entirely along it and drop sufficient extent to are engaged by one'or more, of the screws M whereby they are transferred laterally to the rail ,M, by which they are restoredto their proper channels in the magazine B. However, the matrices Y, due to the regis tration of their notches Y with the ridge 0, are permitted to descend'slightly For to 'a with the bar M. They are then moved laterally by the screws M until they-pass over the bridge, when they fall into and' through I the vertical tube-P, which isso located and arranged as to deliver thematricesto theinclined shoulders P when they are engaged with the rail N and screws-. N and are restored through the entrance C totheir' proper channels in the magazine C. In Fig. 4 I have --shown a modification,

\ wherein the bridge and the notched matrices may be dispensed with. In thisjcas ev the sorts matrices W of the. upper magazine and the sorts matrices V of the lower maga-.

zine are both delivered to the" upper sup-j plementary rail R,

along which they are caused to travel toward the left by the screws R matrices W drop from the rai and are restored to the upper magazine, whereas the into the tube T, through which they pass,

and are then delivered to the inclined alterations therein,

of the United States, is as the other series may prevent their engagement,

' position.

During this 0 eration the shouldersT and thence to'the lower supplementary rail S and screws S. It will be noted that these screws rotate in the opposits direction, and consequently the matrices V now travel toward the right, during. which operation they are restored to their appropriate .cha'nnels in the mags zine C. I

.As previously stated, I have shown my invention only in preferred form and by way of example, and. in a specific a dapta-' tion. However, many modifications and and in its mode of a plication, will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art, without departure from its scope. 'Havlng thus described my invention, its construction and mode of operation, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent follows:

v 1.. In a typographical .machine, the combination of distributing mechanism, two series of magazines, one of said series having a nts magazines in constant operative relation .to the distributing mechanism, and means whereby one or another of the magazines of be brought into opera-' tiye relation thereto. V

2. In a typographical. machine, the combi nation of a plurality of magazines movable as a whole to bring one or another into operative position, and a plurality of fixed supplementary magazines, with distributing mechanism to deliver type or matrices to all the supplementary magazines simultane "*ously.

3. .In a typographicalmachine, the combination of a plurality of'magazines movable "as a'whole to bring oneor another into operative position, and a plurality of fixed supplementary magazines, with distributing mechanism to deliver type or matrices, simultaneously to all the supplementary maga zines and to the main magazine in operative 4@. In a .typographical'machine, the com-.

bination of a mam magazine, a. distributer therefor, a plurality. of supplementary magazines, and a corresponding plurality of.disltributers' therefor-adapted to receive the type 1.15

-or matrices for the supplementary maga -z'ines from the 'main distributer.

*' '5.. Inja typographical machine, the combination of a mam magazine, a distributer therefor, a pluralityof supplementary maga- 12c flzlnes, and a corresponding plurality of disitributers therefor, together with means whereby the typeor matrices for the supplement'ary magazines willbe delivered from the main distributer to the several supple-"125 mentazydistributers. j I 6. In a typographical machine, the combination of a mainmagazine, a distributer therefor, aflplurality of supplementary mag- .azines, and a corresponding plurality of dis- 139 'tributers therefor, together with means whereby the type or matrices for the supplementary magazines will be delivered from the main distributer to one or anotlner of the supplementary distributers according to theirv form.

7.- In a typographical machineytheco'mbination of two toothed distributer bars each having a series of character distributing combinations, the said bars being arranged endto end and separated by an untoothed portion, I and aselecting bridge underlying the untoothed portion and serving to control.

. type or matrices therefrom to the other supplementary distributer.

9. In a typographical machine, the combination of two toothed distributer bars each having a series of character distributing combinations, the said bars being arranged end to end and separated by. an untoothed portion, a selecting bridge underlying the untoothed portion and serving to carry type or matrices of one form from one bar to wthe other and to permit type or matrices of another form to become disengaged from both said bars, .Witha third distributer bar to receive the type or matrices so disengaged. 10. In a typographical machine, the combination with a main distributer to separate matrices according to character and a plurality of supplemental distributers adapted also to separate matrices according to character, of a font distributer arranged in position-to recelve matrices from the main distributer' and separate them according to form or font for delivery to one or another of the supplemental distributers.

In testimony whereof I have aiiixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

- DAVID S. KENNEDY Witnesses:

ALFRED W. F. GUEST, J HAROLD BURT.

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